# What makes a TV show SDMB-worthy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 26, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861 "2001-10-26T20:53:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/1 "2001-10-26T20:53:39Z")
A very few current TV series merit SDMB threads. Off the top of my head I can think of Buffy/Angel, Survivor, The West Wing, and Star Trek’s flavor of the moment. Did I miss any of the biggies? There are some others, but they don’t seem to have the staying power of these.
What do you think is the reason there are active threads about these shows, but not others? Any commonalities between them?
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### Author:  [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/2 "2001-10-26T21:11:44Z")
You missed **THE** biggie. Liking _The Simpsons_ is the closest thing we have to an entrance exam here on the SDMB.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/3 "2001-10-26T21:16:11Z")
Sopranos, Band of Brothers, that undertaker one, (Six Feet Under?) have all got a lot of discussion here at one point or another. Then again, so did Who Wants to be a Princess?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/4 "2001-10-26T21:22:17Z")
I trust that you were not categorizing _Babylon 5_ as a Star Trek flavor.
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### Author:  [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/5 "2001-10-26T21:36:38Z")
You forgot “Love Cruise: The Maiden Voyage”
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/6 "2001-10-26T21:38:22Z")
Hell if I know. My threads on Alias, 100 Centre Street, Mutant X and Wolf Lake have all sunk into the depths of obscurity.
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### Author:  [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/7 "2001-10-27T04:16:22Z")
_Wolf Lake_??? Fangs, but no fangs.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/8 "2001-10-27T19:41:58Z")
what’s “SDMB”
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/9 "2001-10-27T20:39:59Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by MyFootsZZZ \*
> \*\*what’s “SDMB” \*\*
**S** ome **D** umb **M** ofo’ **B** oard.
Or **S** traight **D** ope **M** essage **B** oard.
Remind me never to do that much coding in one message ever again, will ya?
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/10 "2001-10-28T00:51:05Z")
**Whatmove** : If there were any justice on this board, you’d get banned for making a pun that bad.
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/11 "2001-10-28T00:59:50Z")
I haven’t been here for that long, but does the Simpsons get a thread every week discussing the episode? The way it seems is that programs that are serial in nature have a better chance of receiving a weekly thread (Friends has been getting much love lately). It tends to be a combo of
“Can you believe what they did on…”
and
“What do you think they’ll do next on…”
Oh and I never had any desire to watch Wolf Lake. I’ll bet it really bites.
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-tv-show-sdmb-worthy/89861/12 "2001-10-28T01:03:09Z")
I would only point out that my post on another thread created this juxtiposition:
What makes a TV show SDMB-worthy?
Infomercials you watch over and over…
[snicker]